As we reported, when Iran gave its first space monkey a hero's welcome, people noticed that it looked considerably different than the monkey it had supposedly sent to space. Iran claimed the photos were just a mix up, but the world wondered whether the original monkey had died or perhaps had never gone into space to begin with.

On the serious side, the BBC reports that sending a monkey into space worries the West because they fear Iran could be testing technology that could be used to launch ballistic missiles.